Kat Newbert

Going to be over soon and can't wait to see this wonderful little plant.

Well, aren't we all keen! This update is very overdue. Looking forward to getting my dirty botanical mitts on it.

Already pre-ordered my copy

Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis is the rarest subspecies of maidenhair spleenwort found growing out of damp limestone with high humidity levels. Identified by its lobed leaves from which it gets its English name, lobed maidenhair spleenwort. This one was tucked away in the Wye Valley.

Thanks Jo, leaves the same throughout the plant. Want completely without stinging hairs, stinging hairs rare though.

Surveying near the river Itchen in Hampshire today and pretty convinced this is Urtica dioica subsp. subinermis with only a few stinging hairs. @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social what do you think?

Back from the fantastic @bsbibotany.bsky.social Mentha workshop run by @ambroisebaker.bsky.social. I learnt a lot, mints can be so variable.

On the field meeting we found a number of different species. First photo is M. x gracilis, second is M. x smithiana and third is M. x verticillata.

Up in Yorkshire at the moment for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social Mentha workshop. Quick walk before dinner and found a few interesting things including Bromus inermis ssp. inermis which is the more common of the two subspecies.

They did say you needed to send photos to confirm ID before you get too excited. 😅

After several days at a music festival having my ears blasted, I thought it would be good to balance out with some botanising. A trip down to the Dorset heaths and I finally found Dorset heath Erica ciliaris and it's hybrid with Erica tetralix = Erica x watsonii in the middle of the family photo.

Having a fantastic week at the @bsbibotany.bsky.social summer meeting. Finding a fantastic range of sedges and grasses. Highlight of my week is finding Carex x boenninghausiana, the hybrid between remota and paniculata. Hierochloe odorata, Calamagrostis stricta and it's hybrid C. x gracilescens.

On route to the @bsbibotany.bsky.social annual summer meeting in Melrose, stopping off in Yorkshire to see some hawkweeds. Here is Ribbleshead hawkweed Hieracium caesitium with its very delicately blotched leaves.

Sweet galingale, Cyperus longus found on a recent botanical survey.

I found it in Surrey last year in Surrey quite a way from your site. Your plant matches my plants. I found it in horse grazed fields that get seasonally wet, on the acid side. If you want to look it up it's featured in BSBI news Autumn 2024 my photos are in there.

@bramblebotanist.bsky.social and I found it up Ben lawers last year. It's quite different, this is a rubbish phone picture as its quite difficult to get in focus.

Found this wonderful purple form of Ononis spinosa whilst botanising near the Severn estuary. Ive never seen it in another colour form before.

We got between 50 - 80 plants in the end. I really got my eye in for finding them. Tricky little buggers. This is a spot the orchid picture.

So to balance out the orchid post earlier, here is a much better sedge find. Carex davalliana, one of the new sedges i saw this weekend. This sedge is sadly extinct in the UK but still found across much of Europe in calcareous flushes.

@bramblebotanist.bsky.social and I have had a fantastic day exploring alpine flora in the French alps. We found Gymnadenia rhellicani, a black vanilla orchid just opening.

Melampyrum nemorosum, wood cow wheat is abundant on the road verges in this area of france. A favourite of the trip so far.

Never thought I'd get to see a ghost orchid 😍 #orchid #ghostorchid #Epipogiumaphyllum

Fantastic #BSBIRubusWeekend2025 led by @bramblebotanist.bsky.social we saw lots of Norfolk specialities including a new Rubus species for the UK - Rubus paraplicatus one of the suberecti group.

Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

That looks a bit more like Hypericum pulchrum from your photo.

Those marbles rolled away down the hill along time ago 🤣

That species looks completely different as well as completely different habitat preferences. This has now been confirmed as Galium constrictum from photos and pressed material.

Fantastic, thank you for putting in the records. Will be checking the app records in the morning 😀

Seems like a good year for Orobanche, especially yellow forms.

Trying to one up our Yellow Orobanche i see 🤣🤭

4 Gold-tailed Melitta males roosting in the musk mallow this evening. There were 5 or 6 about today so the others must be lurking nearby. #SolitaryBees